Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel procedures

2012-06-14 Thread Sven Barth
Am 15.06.2012 08:28, schrieb Michael Schnell: Regarding an implementation fast enough to take real advantage of multiprocessor boxes, a native support for Futex (instead of going via the pthread library) might be helpful (no idea about the Windows and Mac equivalents). The Linux unit already co

Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel procedures

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Schnell
On 06/15/2012 02:39 AM, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: What do you think? Why not -- although IMO it would be much better to have some lagnuage-level support for things like single-owner semantics. Yep. I think parallel loops and futures li

[fpc-devel] There is a FTP/HTTP to download only daily snapshots of the Free Pascal? (setup for Windows)

2012-06-14 Thread silvioprog
Hello, For Lazarus, I get daily snapshots on this link: ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/snapshots/ Right, but if I want to download only the Free Pascal? Thanks, ps. Please update this link: ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/fpc/snapshot/ -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silv

Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel procedures

2012-06-14 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > What do you think? > Why not -- although IMO it would be much better to have some lagnuage-level support for things like single-owner semantics. Independenty, it seems that the unit should be updated to support "is nested" modifier. --

[fpc-devel] Parallel procedures

2012-06-14 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Hi, FPC does not yet have parallel loops/procedures, but there is a unit that helps to create parallel procedures/methods (mtprocs). http://wiki.freepascal.org/Parallel_procedures I use this unit since 4 years in several of my projects, which run on linux, os x and windows. Not much was done on